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When scientists announced the complete sequence of the human genome in 2003, they were fudging a bit. In fact, nearly...

Prehistoric mammals bulked up, rather than develop bigger brains, to boost their survival chances once dinosaurs had become extinct, research...

Xinjiang, in northwest China, lays at an important junction between east and west Eurasia and has played a historically important...

Tetrahymena, a tiny single celled-organism, turns out to be hiding a surprising secret: it’s doing respiration – using oxygen to...

After the last meeting of the International Society of Microbiota (ISM), a well-documented report and statement were published. Numerous investigations showed...

Most of us remember enough biology to recall that mitochondria are known as “the powerhouse of the cell.” Even that...

WASHINGTON – Engineers, optical and medical scientists, physicians, researchers, and graduate students will convene for this year’s Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical...

New research by two Bocconi University professors suggests that women may be significantly less corrupt than men. Women at different...

NISKAYUNA, NY – March 31, 2022 –  Are we moving closer to the day when diabetes is no longer monitored...

Osaka, Japan – Commonly known as whooping cough, pertussis is a respiratory disease that results from infection with the bacterium...

Skin cells and their DNA varies between individuals, but new data from Flinders University shows that some groups of people...

Cancer is currently the most common cause of death in most developed countries around the world. In the USA, comprehensive...

CHARGE syndrome, which affects approximately one in 10,000 newborns worldwide, is associated with neurological and behavioural conditions like intellectual disability,...

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have revealed how poxviruses build their scaffold -...

Recently published research led by University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa scientists highlights the potential for using oceanographic sensors to...

Soy molasses and kudzu roots contain isoflavonoids with high antioxidant and cytotoxic activity, scientists have discovered. Substances can help fight...

One of the serious complications that can occur during late pregnancy happens when the amniotic sac (also called the bag...

Newly-discovered subfossils in the remote Marquesas Islands reveal the biological splendor that greeted Polynesian explorersCredit: Allen et al. (Nick Porch),...

Neandertal populations in the Iberian Peninsula were experiencing local extinction and replacement even before Homo sapiens arrived, according to a...

A rare type of brain blood vessel malformation known as a cavernous angioma affects more than one million Americans and...